I am a PhD candidate in Economics and Finance at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, advised by Professor Stefano Colombo.

I am on the 2026–2027 economics job market.

My research is in industrial organization and applied microeconomic theory, focusing on consumer data, personalization, and dynamic competition. Using game-theoretic models, I study how customer recognition shapes competition and consumer welfare. I develop this agenda across several papers.

In my job market paper, I examine personalization beyond prices: how firms use purchase histories to set prices and allocate service priority in congested markets.

In joint work with Stefano Colombo and Rosa-Branca Esteves, I study how the sequence of renewal and acquisition offers changes competition.

In my Information Economics and Policy paper, I examine how behavior-based price discrimination affects firms’ incentives to invest in cost-reducing R&D.

Currently, I am a visiting researcher at the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE). During my PhD, I also visited the Toulouse School of Economics, hosted by Professor Andrew Rhodes, and the University of Minho, hosted by Professor Rosa-Branca Esteves.

You can contact me at goekhan.can@unicatt.it.